daniel.sh
Not gay as in happy, queer as in mincing and villainous • Engineer, architect, technical lead • Formerly at Vox Media and Bauer Media, currently for hire • https://daniel.sh
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Guy in the HRA office the other day loudly contending he should be able to use any language he wants, because "LGBTQ on television is the real cursing." "LGBTQ" delightfully verbatim. Allyship.
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the fault of the radical left-pad
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Weakly held in the knowledge that the High Anxiety cinematic universe will someday make a hypocrite of me.
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Cancel me if you must but The Producers (1967) was 88 minutes long because it's an 88-minute joke and that's something to be proud of. Things should end.
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“outlet that squandered its reputation on the chalkboard-nail Just Asking Questions tone of a clutch of smug mediocrities you won’t pay to read anymore is betting big on events where you also have to look at their faces” okay couple of follow-up questions “and a Wordle clone” that was not among them
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CEO brain thrives in this space of highly complex uselessness, equidistant from the obviously effective conservative solution (pay journalists to write things people pay to read) and the obviously effective radical solution (cut off ad contracts, rebuild distribution channels, pay me to do it).
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"It's annoying" "it's inefficient" "it's distracting" sure fine but how about people looking directly into their camera can see me through the screen.
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THEY: Our app can index everything in your closet.
ME: Like Clueless!
T: Not really. It uses AI to extract images of your items.
M: Like Clueless.
T: No—you can use the images to get recommendations and put together outfits.
M: …like Clueless?
Didn't get that one. Can't imagine why.
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Have taken a lot from the perspective that if you want to understand or change complex systems, you can’t go looking for one nefarious idiot to the exclusion of structures and processes, but it is losing some of its explanatory power in an increasingly “one nefarious idiot” world.
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The halcyon five minutes when The Stigma Of Mental Illness was diminished enough that you could talk about it but powerful enough that you didn't have to constantly listen to other people talk about it.
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These are photos of the foot soldiers training how NOT to respond to provocations. It’s hard work!
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If there were any justice in the world this would be fatal.
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But I have no lethal weapon—
Thus does fate our pleasure step on!
So they still are quick and well
Who should be, by rights, in hell.
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Guarantee this man does not know why it would be relevant to count syllables
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Would actually be fine with the creepy homophobia if it were clever so maybe the focus of my licensing body should be broader.
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the immanently reactionary politics of parenting are a highly suspect project and its adoption as a kitsch aesthetic a queasy strategy for avoiding the moral reckoning overdue its practitioners and advocates
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The technology should not be developed further until we all recognise that LLMs are an environmentally harmful user-interface technology - not intelligence - designed to make *us* fail the Turing test, and one that will cause broad systemic harm.
Except, again, for the Darth Vader bot in Fortnite.
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rank me as mayor and all dads will be hung or hanged
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a pool of men held in common for labor entertainment and breeding stock with any ensuing children yielded up to the state for rearing in the traditions of herland
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There's a laundry hamper in my brain labeled STRAIGHT PEOPLE NONSENSE and Frank Sinatra is crammed at the bottom.